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He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."

From Time Magazine Archive

Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose.

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On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

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But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread.

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At last the French attacked one of the strongest of all the English forts, the bastille of Les Tourelles.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

True they had their bastilles upon the north side of the river to fall back upon, since the Maid's counsel of destruction had not been followed.

From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green

Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

All round the outside of the town, on the right bank, the English had built strong redoubts, which they called bastilles.

From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

The chiefs of the besieged resolved to begin on the morrow a combined attack upon the English bastilles which surrounded the palace; but Joan was not in their counsels.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black

Joan now gave instructions that no aid should reach this portion of the English defences from the adjacent bastilles.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower